He was doing it fraudulently to make money.

I thought using bots in a misleading and inauthentic way was free speech. What about Elon's stock pumping twitter bots?

That may be true by itself. However, misleading and inauthentic speech to make money is fraudulent and illegal.

> misleading and inauthentic speech to make money

Isn't that just "marketing"?

Who said those are legal? I'm sure that could be securities or wire fraud.

I'd like to read more about this court case